WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Sweet Dreams 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.560 Higat everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading The 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:13.640 Bengals Booth Podcast. The sweet dreams are made of this addition, 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.800 as the Bengals not only beat the dreaded, hated, but 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:24.160 grudgingly respected Pittsburgh Steelers. They hummeled Pittsburgh. They pulverized Pittsburgh. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:30.360 They pounded Pittsburgh. Enough alliteration you get the picture. Coming up, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.920 you'll hear radio replays from a thirty one point win, 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:38.040 postgame comments from players and coaches, and analysis from my 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:42.360 broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, in this week's fun fact segment, 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:47.040 you'll hear Larry Ogan Joby describe his remarkable road to 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.520 the NFL. It's well worth your time. The Bengals Booth 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.920 Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals. The Freed to Play 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.880 Next Level Fantasy Football game downloaded now from the App 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.880 Store and Google Play. And here's a quick reminder that 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.760 you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.440 right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing wherever 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:13.039 you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since air 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.480 traffic control. I was on a lot of planes last 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:21.040 week from Cincinnati to Las Vegas, Vegas to Kansas City, KC. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.480 Back home, then, after a one day break back on 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.840 a plane to North Carolina before flying home again the 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.679 next day. It occurred to me on all of those 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:35.200 flights that air traffic control is a remarkable thing that 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.800 we completely take for granted. With so many flights in 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.280 the sky at any given time, the coordination required to 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.959 keep all of us safe is truly amazing. So thank 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.720 you to the highly skilled heroes and air traffic control. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:56.400 This frequent flyer is grateful. Now let's get to Sunday's 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.480 stunner at Paul Brown Stadium. The highlights begin and with 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.680 Cincinnati's second play on offense, Burrow moves under center after 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.960 being in the shotgun on the opening play. It's a 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.360 stretch run left Mixon having the first down and Marto 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.760 to the fifty into Steelers territory. Yanked out a bounce 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.680 on the Bengals sideline by Minka Fitzpatrick at the forty 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.720 six of Pittsburgh. Nothing fancy, They're just a good inside 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.919 run and good double team left guard left tackle. Get 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.800 up to the next level. Joe Mixon working down the 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.200 football field. How about the downfield blocked by Jamar Chase 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.760 that let Joe Mixon even take advantage further of that 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.520 rush opportunity, Jamar Chase at the third level getting it 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.560 done twenty five yards for Joe Mixon on his first 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.640 carry of the day. On the Bengals opening drive, Mixon 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:49.000 carried seven times for forty nine yards that set up 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.480 a touchdown run by the other star of the Joe Show. 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.440 Second down and seven from the Steelers eight, as the 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.280 Bengals try to score on their opening possession for just 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.480 the second time this year, drops back to throw spins 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:07.079 away from a tackler running through ten the five, Burrow 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:13.520 is in touchdown. Bengals show Burrow with his first rushing 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.400 touchdown up the season, a great spin move at the 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.320 line of scrimmage to get it started, and he swerved 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.080 into the end zone to score. The spinning, swerving touchdown 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.440 run came one year in six days after Joe's knee 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.720 injury in Washington. You know, Highsmith got got some pressure 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.120 on me. I was able to get outside and you know, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.840 had a little boogie right there. My name was feeling 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.720 my name was feeling good on my NWS, feeling great 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.000 old day. I was exciting. So the offense started the 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.880 game with a seventy five yard touchdown drive, and the 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.560 defense got off to a great start. Two second and seven, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.560 as the crowd gets into it, Roethlisberger in the shotgun 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.320 for the first time today, stomps the left foot, catches 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.360 the snap, drops back, now steps up in the pocket, 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.320 flings it toward the near side, picked off by Eli 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.360 Apple running up the near sideline to the Pittsburgh thirty 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.720 twenty five, cuts back at the twenty ten. He gets 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.160 tackled at the five. Eli Apple's second interception in his 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.760 many weeks led to an Evan McPherson field goal and 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.119 at tend nothing lead. The Steelers answered with a field 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.000 goal on their next possession to make it ten three, 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.960 but when the Bengals got the ball back, one Joe 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.320 Mixon run was followed by five straight pass completions by 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.239 Joe Burrow first and ten at the Pittsburgh thirty two, 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.760 the Bengals leading by seven. Burrow catches a shotgun snap 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.719 five step drop. It's gonna float it for the end 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.640 zone in te Higgins. He goes up, He's got it. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.560 Te Higgins wins the back to the football as he 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:48.760 took it away from James Pierre touchdown Cincinnati. Burrow completed 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:53.000 twenty of twenty four passes, six went to Higgins for 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:58.600 one hundred fourteen yards. Was it the Bengals best offensive performance? Yeah, 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.400 you know, I would say so. No. I felt like 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.560 we were rolling the whole day. And you know, we 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.000 started to get up by a bunch. We started to 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.479 play more conservative, but you know, at the beginning we 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.760 were rolling. They certainly were after scoring on their last 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.680 five drives of the Raiders game last week. The Bengals 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.279 scored on their first four drives on Sunday, including a 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.400 fourteen play eighty four yard march that made it twenty 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.320 four to three in the second quarter. Growing the shotgun, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.920 Nixon to his right. Well they give it to Joe again. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.400 They do twist his shoulder, pads lunches forward. Here come 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:37.240 the officials running in touchdown Bengals. It looked like the 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.760 Bengals would score for the tenth straight possession when they 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.680 drove to the Steelers twenty six with a minute left 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.919 and a half, but a Minca Fitzpatrick interception gave Pittsburgh 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.640 the ball back at their own twenty one. Big Ben 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.840 catches the shotgun staff short drop throws h having it 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.560 back to the house for the touchdown down. My Kilton 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:06.320 against his former team, intercept Ben Roethlisberger's pass and runs 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:11.040 it into the end zone. Cincinnati is embarrassing Pittsburgh so 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.800 far today. Wow, how about that an unscripted, unconventional score. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:18.719 On top of being able to run the football, throw 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.720 the football, you get a defensive score by former Pittsburgh 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.480 Steeler Mike Hilton. So, Mike Hilton, how did that feel? 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.240 You really want to know this villain the world? Man. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.720 That's my first career pick sixs and my whole football career. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.039 So to do it against those guys in a big 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:41.120 division game couldn't be Ine sueda peewee high school college 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.479 first four years of the league and this is my 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.400 first one. How great is that? It was thirty one 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.600 three Bengals at the half and Zach Taylor was thrilled 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.120 from Mike Hilton. Mike Hilton's a winner. Mike Hilton brings 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.440 constant energy. We talk about guys who are consistent every 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.440 single day, and we don't expect from him every day 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.279 they walk in the building. That's Mike Hilton to tea. 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.080 You know, he's just awesome to be around. Brings a 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.600 high standard to everybody, and guys just respect the heck 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.080 out of him. Down by four touchdowns in the second half, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.040 the Steelers had to throw the ball and that allowed 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:18.760 Trey Hendrickson to tee off Roethlisberger looking right, Pump fakes, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.080 looks back and the left gets hit from behind. The 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:26.640 ball comes out, Hubbard recovers and Roethlisberger is hurt. The 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.320 fumble first down for the Bengals. They called Trey Hendrickson 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.400 with a strip sack, Sam Hubbard with the recovery, and 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.440 with that strip sack, Trey Hendrickson has established a new 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.760 Bengals record with his seventh consecutive game with a sack. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.720 Hendrickson has ten and a half sacks in eleven games 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.720 with the Bengals. Sacks a sack they don't ask, you know, 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.200 how it happens, They ask how many. So it's a 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.160 it's just a fun thing when you're balling with your 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.000 brothers and uh, we just we're just loving football. That 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.440 strip sack led to a fifty one yard field goal 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.320 by Evan McPherson that gave the Bengals at thirty four 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:08.360 to three lead. The outcome was no longer in doubt. 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.440 But Joe Mixon wasn't finished punishing Pittsburgh asa a p 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.120 incident right tackle. Here's a run to the left for Mixon. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.000 Now looks to cut it back and here he goes. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.160 He runs to the forty forty five fifty near sideline, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.720 forty five forty thirty five shove down abounds. I'll tell 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.960 you what, James Pierre, your athletics supporter, is back at 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.800 about the thirty five yard line. I mean, James Pierre 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.200 what he was there to make a tackle in space 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.560 and Joe Mixon just come up inside of him and 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.599 off to the races he went. Boys, Joe Mixon, decisive 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.600 and explosive. That's one hundred and sixty four yards following 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.040 a thirty eight yard dash there, and that is a 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.600 new career high for Joe Mixon. His previous high one 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.480 sixty two a few years ago. Against the Cleveland Browns, 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.720 Mixon finished with twenty eight carries for one hundred sixty 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.360 five yards. So great. At the same time, I mean, 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.360 with I'm my on line, with I my tight ends, 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.640 with on my receivers all being brought into the run game, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.880 it wouldn't happen. So as much as it is an 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.319 award for me and a career thing for me, is 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.679 the same thing for them. So I'm excited for everybody 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.200 in the building. But at the same time, we just 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.040 got to keep building on top of that. Fittingly, Mixon's 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.360 final carrey of the day resulted in his thirteenth touchdown 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.920 of this season. Joe has at least one in eight 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.600 straight games and two touchdowns in each of his last four. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.800 Burrow under center Mixing lined up behind Stanley Morgan into 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.240 the game as a block and receiver Burrow hands it 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:46.679 on the Mixon He's into the end zone. Touchdown. Bengals. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.960 Joe was stumbling up after taking the snap from Trey Hill, 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.400 but he got into Mixon for the score, and the 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.480 Bengals have a great choreograph dance with Mixon and all 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.760 of his offensive linemen in the end zone after that touchdown. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.560 A couple of days ago, somebody posted video from the 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.000 Bengals locker room of Mixing showing three hundred thirty pound 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.880 offensive lineman Quentin Spain how to do a touchdown dance. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.480 Spain was the choreographer in this case. They explain, was 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.560 just like man let's do the two steps. Let's do 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.640 the two steps. I'm like, okay, temptations. So he ended 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.120 up coordinating that real quick, and you know, to really 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.920 see all of the linemen and other positions joining in. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.079 I mean, I was lit for me. So I mean, 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.560 only if y'all knew and really talked to certain people, 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.160 you wouldn't expect Big Jonah to go out there doing 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.080 the two steps. So, I mean it was funny. I 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.400 thought it was a hell of a deal, and I'm 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.920 just I'm excited for all of them, to be honest. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.160 The score was forty one to three. That thirty eight 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.520 point margin would have been the Bengals' biggest ever in 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.880 a win over Pittsburgh they won by thirty five back 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.400 in nineteen eighty eight. However, with two fifty nine left 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.400 and the Bengals backups in on defense, Roethlisberger threw a 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:02.160 touchdown pass to had friar Mouth that made the final 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.800 score forty one to ten. That means the combined score 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.599 and the Bengals two wins over Pittsburgh this year was 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:14.960 sixty five to twenty. Here are t Higgins, Mike Hilton, 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.560 and Joe Burrow on a decisive when beating Pittsburgh Arrival, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.360 you know, it feels good for sure. You know, um, 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.160 it's a great team. Hats off to them, you know 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.640 it's a great team. But being able to would you say, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.480 sixty five points in two games, you know that's unbelieveable. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.800 You know, we haven't beat them but twice since what 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.679 two thousand and nine, And man, it's good. I'm just 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.240 got I'm part of it. But I have a lot 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.839 of respect and love for those guys. They gave me 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.000 opportunity to be where I am now, and you know, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.920 I would be grateful to them. But when I when 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.960 I came here, I came here on the mission. It 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.160 was to help turn this team around, helped him build 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.560 this team up. And we're taking the right strides and 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.280 I like where we're hitting. Yeah, we're right where we 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.199 want to be. You know, we have high aspirations this year. 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.480 You know, we can't let up now though I think 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.880 you know, we started strong and then we kind of 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.840 skidded a little bit there in the middle of the season, 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:05.760 and now coming down the stretch, I think we're really 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.839 hitting our stripes. So we gotta keep having great, great, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.000 great weeks of practice and I think we have the 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.840 guys that are excited about where we're at, but not satisfied. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.440 After the game, Dave Lapham spent four minutes in the 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.680 locker room with head coach Zach Taylor. Right from the 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:25.240 beginning of the staff, that is most promising to me 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.480 and the most beautiful thing. One hundred and ninety eight 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.199 yards rushing to their fifty one. You guys dominated the 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.760 line of scrimmage from jump Street. Yeah, when you get 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.480 in November December football, especially the divisional football, it starts 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:37.839 up front and both sides of the ball. And I 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.040 thought our guys came to play today and really proud 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.360 of him from start to finish. They really controlled this game. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.320 They really did. And you had Joe Mixon go for 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.120 one hundred and sixty five yards on twenty eight carries. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.240 So let's see nineteen carries in the second half last week, 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.000 that's forty seven for like almost two hundred and seventy 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.079 yards on forty seven carries in basically five quarters of football. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.240 He played three quarters today and a half game last week. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.719 That's just I guess you know what you have in 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.839 Joe Mixon. But when he performs like that, what is 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:07.880 the dude to the football team. Yeah, feeds. Everybody feeds 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:09.960 off that energy, you know, and there's nothing better than 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.440 getting a good, strong run game going that the defense 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.560 can feel that the clock gets sucked out, you know, 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.280 and they're keeping their offense on the sidelines and we're 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.880 keeping their defense on the field. And that's just a good, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.880 good way to play AFC North football. How big was 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.320 Mike Hilton against this former team. I was just talking 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:27.840 to him in the Lockerman said, it's the first pick 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.480 six he's ever had high school, college, or NFL. And 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.240 it happens against Ben and the Pittsburgh Steelers. That had 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.160 to be some juice. That was a big moment, you know, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.960 because we were trying to end the half with no 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:39.840 time on the clock and points on our board, and 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.720 we had to turnover and then Mike comes right around 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.000 and resteals the momentum for us going in a halftime. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.880 That was a big time moment. Teams can't double team everybody, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:53.079 and Tee Higgins got some single coverage and abused it. Yeah, absolutely, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.840 you know, over a hundred yards receiving. He had a 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.120 huge touchdown, grab should have scored another touchdown. He got 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.000 tackled on the inch yard line. That's that's the response 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.280 we've been waiting for for teag He's always been able 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.679 to do that. Now we just were able to get 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.120 him the opportunity to be able to showcase that. Joe Burrow, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.640 efficient's not the word twenty out of twenty four, one 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.000 hundred and ninety yards and a touchdown and the interception 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:17.040 that you talked about. But Joe in terms of seeing 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.160 what to do and knowing how to do it, he's 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.120 as good as anybody isn't he. There's no question. I mean, 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.240 the first and second down pass calls, it's just so 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:24.880 easy for me just to call it, know that he's 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.400 going to find the right guy and find an open 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.760 guy and find his checkdowns plenty of times when he 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.240 needed to and best the type of performance we need 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.360 from him today. In the first half, when you guys 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.560 were really getting it going. On first down, you were 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.600 so amazing. You averaged like ten yards per completion on 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.160 first down, like five and a half yards per rush 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.920 on first down. You had ten run calls and ten 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.200 pass calls on first down. Were you trying to be 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.320 that balanced or to just work out that way? It's 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.320 a mixture, you know, it was in a lot of 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.920 ways that was the plan. We just we've had a 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.200 lot of belief in what we're going to do on 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.800 our drive back passes there early on, and you saw 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.560 how efficient we were on the runs in the first quarter. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.840 We wanted to stick with that as well, So just 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.760 trying never let them get ahead and get a beat 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.200 on what we were doing. That's even we're running the ball. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:08.800 We wanted to make send some good passes in there, 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.880 just just to keep them off balance. Yeah, because if 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.320 you get in second and third and long situations against 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.280 these guys, I mean t J. Watton Highsmith there, that's 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.200 a good duo. There's no question about you guys were 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.640 able to negate them with how successful you were on 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.440 first the second down. Yeah, there's no quale. You can't 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.440 let those guys get off, you know. And it's a 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.040 really good group up front that we've had to deal 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:27.920 with for a number of years now and we know 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.600 what they can do to a game. And so I 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.680 thought it was an outstanding drive by our offensive line 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.920 keeping them in check. So the one to know today 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.200 makes you seven and four and you're three and one 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.960 in the division. That's a big deal to no one 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.920 else has played four games in the division. You guys 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.280 have won three of them. How big is it. It's 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.040 a big deal. You know, every every game you win 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.880 in this division set you one forward and sets another 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.000 team back. And so again we got to play our 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.120 best ball in the division, and our guys, for the 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.560 most part, I've done that. Congratulations on up being winning 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.640 today forty one to ten, three in a row against 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.960 the Pittsburgh Steelers, all by ten points. Some more not 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.120 eking out wins, coach smoking them. We'll take it, absolutely, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:09.840 love it, love every minute of it. Up next a 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.200 home game against the La Chargers, who lost in Denver 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.320 on Sunday twenty eight thirteen. 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Find Ultimate Bengals in the app stores. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.800 Now time for postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:57.280 Lapham Lap A thoroughly stunning result from Paul Brown Stadium 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.800 is the Bengals pummel the Pittsburgh Steelers forty one to ten. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.240 You were in the locker room after the game. Share 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.760 the vibe with people listening to this conversation, you know, it's, um, 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:13.280 it was almost like more expected than celebratory. You know, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.919 they were like, we felt like we had this in 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:21.040 us and they were happy about it, obviously, but it's 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.359 almost like business like, you know, we felt like we 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.680 could do this. This one's over with, We're moving on. Um. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:28.520 You know, the fact that they're three and one of 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.240 the division. Nobody else has played four division games, nobody 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.560 else has won three of them, so that puts them 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.560 in pretty good shape obviously. That way, and with that 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.920 seven and four record, they were onward and upward and 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.879 that that was kind of like the message. But I 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:44.680 think there was there was pride and how it was 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.000 accomplished and how they dominated the line of scrimmage, how 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:52.480 they took over the football game right away. I think 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.760 I think there was some definitely some pride on both 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.160 sides of the football that that way. But I will 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.320 say Mike Hilton was like a little kid at Christmas man, 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.720 big smile on his face. You know, he couldn't wipe 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.200 the smile off his face. And that's the first pick 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.520 six he's ever had in high school, college, or NFL. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.960 So he was he was thrilled at it came against 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.560 the Pittsburgh Steelers and Ben Roethlisberger. For sure. Not only 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.080 are the Bengals three and one in the division, they've 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.480 all been double digit wins. Ten points at Pittsburgh, twenty 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.480 four points at Baltimore, now thirty one points at home 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.280 against the Steelers. Now you also throw in a blowout 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.680 loss to the Cleveland Brown's oddly enough, but I think 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.520 that's pretty telling. They're not eking these out. It's not 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.480 a lucky break here or there. They've had three dominant victories, 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.440 two over Pittsburgh, one over Baltimore, I agree with you, Dan, 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.000 and then the three straight against Pittsburgh, all double digit 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.200 ten points or more. So you know, you have two 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.200 score wins three straight times, and each time the margin 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:54.320 get bigger ten points, fourteen points than this thirty one 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.760 point win. Is just it's remarkable. I don't think there 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.399 are many people that thought that this was going to 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:05.160 be how this football game would unfold, but it certainly did. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.400 And yeah, I think they feel like they're the best 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.439 team in the division. I think they really feel that 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.439 way right now. That Cleveland game was just one of 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.280 those days that the office is just tough to tough 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.160 to figure out. I mean, five of the last six 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.600 games they've scored thirty one points on war and they 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:24.280 get sixteen against the Cleveland Browns and it's just, you know, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.119 Cleveland scores over forty. So it's just it's one of 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.520 those days where you just scratch your head. But this 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:35.719 Pittsburgh defensive football team is leaky against a run. I 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.560 mean a lot of people have run the football right 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.000 down their throats and that is so non Pittsburgh like. 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.120 For the Bengals to rush for one hundred and ninety 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.280 eight yards in Pittsburgh rush for fifty one, that in 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.600 my mind, says all you need to know about the 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.000 outcome of this football game when you when you're talking 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:56.040 Bengal Steelers and the Bengals rushing yardage didn't come after 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.320 they had a huge lead. It came as they were 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.359 building a huge lead. Sometimes final rushing stats, and a 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.640 blowout can be really deceiving because the team that's way 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.280 ahead winds up with twenty rushes late in the game 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.800 and the other team stops throwing. That was not the 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.440 case in this game. Joe Mixon, obviously, with a hundred 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.480 yards in the first half, one and sixty five in 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.680 the game. His running was the key to building this 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.800 big lead. Yeah, and when you look at it, nineteen 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.120 carries for over one hundred yards in the second half 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.440 against the Raiders twenty eight here, that's forty seven carries 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.280 for almost two hundred and seventy yards and five quarters 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:35.520 of football. And then you know he's gashing him too. 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:37.880 I mean the thirty two yard run he said. He said, 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:42.440 multiple explosive runs in those five quarters of football. So 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.520 he's really in a groove. I mean, he was excited. 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.680 He wasn't really shocked, I don't think by what took place, 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.320 but he was excited about it. And he couldn't say 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:55.680 enough about not only his offensive line, but the tight 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:59.119 ends and wide receivers continuing to block for him like 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.240 they have. He know, he can't give all those teammates 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.520 enough credit. And then when you run the ball like 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:11.399 that Joe Burrow unbelievably efficient twenty for twenty four. That's 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.480 that's darn darn good efficiency for one hundred ninty yards 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.640 and a touchdown. He did have the interception, but quarterback 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.760 rating in ninety six point two. So I said on 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:25.520